Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1920)

4608 Motion Picture N e m s Week's Sales in the Independent Market '• Screen Snapshots " (C. B. C. Film Sales) to Fontenelle Feature Films, of Omaha, for Iowa and Nebraska. Star Ranch Western (C. B. C. Film Sales) to Standard Film Service, of Cleveland, for Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. Star Ranch Westerns to Crescent Film Exchange of Kansas City, Mo., for Kansas and Western Missouri. Star Ranch Westerns to Consolidated Film Corporation, of San Francisco, for California, Nevada and Hawaiian Islands. Star Ranch Westerns to Specialty Film Exchange of Dallas, for Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Star Ranch Westerns to Fontenelle Feature Films for Neband Iowa. "Madonnas and Men" (Hans Pictures Inc.) to John H. Kunsky tor Michigan. " Madonnas and Men " to Joseph Skirboll, of Pittsburgh, for Western Pennsylvania. " Madonnas and Men " to Ben Fitzer, of Buffalo, for New York State. " Isobel " (George Davis) to the First National Exhibitors Exchange of New York, for New York State. " Isobel " to Sol Lesser, of All-Star Feature Distributors, of Los Angeles and San Francisco, for California, Arizona, Nevada. "Isobel" to Phil Selznick, of Cleveland, for Ohio. " Isobel " to De Luxe Film Exchange, of Seattle, for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. " Cowboy Jazz " (S-E Enterprises) to Leo Garner, of the Reliance Film Company of Washington, D. C, for District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. "Honeymoon Ranch" (Bert Lubin) to D. Mundstuk, of Strand Features, Inc., of Detroit, for the State of Michigan. " Smiling All the Way " (D. B. Schwab) to First National Exchange of New York, for New York State. "Smiling All the Way," to Supreme Photoplay Productions, of Pittsburgh. " Smiling All the Way," to Doll-Van Film Corporation, of Chicago. „ "Girls Don't Gamble " (D. N. Schwab), to Supreme Photoplay Productions, of Pittsburgh. "Girls Don't Gamble," to Doll-Van Film Corporation, of Chicago. „ "The Sacred Flame" (Schomer-Ross Productions, Inc.), to Pearce Films, of New Orleans, for Louisiana and Mississippi. _ "The Sacred Flame," to Gallos and Gallos Enterprises, of Chicago, for Illinois. "The Sacred Flame," to the Middle West Film Amusement Company, of Cincinnati, for Ohio and Kentucky. Billy Ruge Comedies (Film Sales Company), to Joy Film Distributing Co., for Greater New York and Northern New ^Billy Ruge Comedies, to Will T. Richards for Mississippi and Louisiana. TT . „ . , Billy Ruge Comedies, to Arthur S. Hyman Attractions tor ^Toreador" (Romayne Superfilm Co.), to Clune Film Exchange for California, Arizona and Nevada " Toreador," to Federated Film Exchange, of Boston, for the New England States. " Toreador," to Empire State Film Corp., for Greater New York New York and Northern New Jersey. " Toreador," to Columbia Film Service for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. . _ . . "Toreador," to Standard Film Service Co., for Ohio and M^Toreador," to First National Exhibitors Exchange for Kentucky and Tennessee. . " Toreador," to Masterpiece Film Attractions, for Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. "Toreador," to Elmhirst and Coburn, for Texas and Louisiana. _ , 12 William Fairbanks Productions (Western Star Productions), to Savini Film, of Atlanta, Ga , for Georgia, Alabama and Florida. _. _ , . 12 William Fairbanks Westerns, to Big Feature Rights Corp of Louisville, Ky., for Kentucky and Tennessee. 12 William Fairbanks Westerns for Detroit Film Co., of Detroit, Mich., for the State of Michigan, excluding the northern peninsula. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies (Russell-Greiver-Russell), to Independent Master Films Co., of Detroit, for Michigan. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies to Pearce Films, New Orleans La., for MississiDpi, North Carolina. South Carolina Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies to Masterpiece Film Attractions, Philadelphia, Pa., for eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies to Standard Film Company, Kansas City, Mo., for Missouri and southern Illinois. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies to R. D. Lewis Film Company, Dallas, Texas, for Arkansas and Oklahoma. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies to Peerless Film Service, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bobbie Ray Tusan Comedies to Unity Film Corporation, Chicago, for Indiana and Illinois. " Why Leave Your Husband? " (Equality Photoplay Corp.) to Empire Film Co., of Chicago, for Indiana. "Why Leave Your Husband?" to Quality Film Sales for Northern New Jersey and New York. "Why Leave Your Husband?" to Twentieth Century Film Co., of Philadelphia, for Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. " Why Leave Your Husband? " to Liberty Film Renting Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. "Why Leave Your Husband?" to National Film Service, of Cleveland, O , for Ohio and Kentucky. "Why Leave Your Husband?" to Commodore Film Co., of Baltimore, Md., for Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia and Virginia. "Why Leave Your Husband?" to Capital Film Co., of Atlanta for North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. "The Woman Above Reproach" (Aywon Film Corp.), to Middle West Film Amusement Co., for Ohio. Fifteen Helen Holmes Two-Reelers (Aywon Film Corp.) to Middle West Film Amusement Co., for Ohio. 12 Two-Reel Mack Swain Comedies (Herald Productions, Inc.), to S. S. Film and Supply Co., for West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. 12 Mack Swain Comedies (Herald Productions, Inc.), to Southeastern Pictures Corporation for North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Buffalo Exchange Reports «« JUST recently," writes C. A. J Taylor, general manager of Gardiner Pictures, Inc., of Buffalo. N. Y., "one of the motion picture magazines gave vent to the cry that the" independent field was being crowded out of the first-run houses, making it rather hard for the independent productions to get dates. " If what was said was based on the opinions of Independent Exchange Men, none such opinions came from our office, as Buffalo can be counted out of the list, as our big super features are easily placed in" first-run houses. " In the first place the biggest Independent Producer is D. W. Griffith, he has had no trouble in gettins his worth-while productions such as "Way Down East' placed all over the country. Why? Because Griffith not only sells film, he sells production, he sells publicity, he sells music and mainly sells the Public. " The only missing link with some of the average exchangemen is their sympathetic friendly ideas on selling their film. There is no time to waste friendship because you do not have the real features, they must have the real selling ideas to a theatre, then the public, backed with good service and different publicity ideas: these win. " Our slogan is ' Service after the Contract ' and we have had no trou productions such as ' The County Fair ' ' Mickey ' ' Before the White Man Came ' and others. Of course I agree with you that some sections may be a little off but any independent exchanges that have worthwhile big features with big planned ideas to sell to the public, the big theatre will find open time them. " In conclusion some of the called independent producers really near to a joke in putting on the market nice little seven fifty and ten dollar pictures with the vivid imagination that they are hundred dollar features .and until they wake up, some independent exchanges will cry with distress. " The day is past for bilking the exhibitor. There is room for real live independent exchanges all over the good old U. S. A." tor soare Everett Maxwell Joins Continuity Staff Everett Maxwell, well known Saturday Evening Post writer, has been engaged as comedy continuity expert for the Chester Conklin productions released by Special pictures. Frank Tern,-, who wrote many of Harold Lloyd's successes, prepares the Conklin stories, while Maxwell puts them into scenario form.